CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Israeli air strikes across Gaza killed at least 50 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday (Aug 21) after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended his latest visit to the region with a truce deal still proving elusive.
Palestinian women reacts after a school run by the United Nations was hit by an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighbourhood of central Gaza City on August 21, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas movement.
Commenting on the attack on the UN-run school, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote on X that"Children reported killed and injured. Some were burnt to death." A Palestinian boy sits with his empty pot amid the rubble of a building near a food distribution point in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip on Aug 21, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas.
Displaced Palestinians travel on a cart after fleeing the western part of Khan Younis, following an evacuation order by the Israeli army, amid Israel- Hams conflict, in the central part of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 21, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem For displaced people left exposed in Deir Al-Balah, the lack of progress towards a ceasefire compounded the misery as they searched for space away from the fighting.
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